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Read volume 7 in the Flavia de Luce series As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638817076.
Read volume 8 in the Flavia de Luce series Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638817023.
Also read Nemesis, book 1 in a series by Louise Cooper, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2448679413.
A catchup on my recent reads:volume 2 of the Louise Cooper series, Inferno, and my review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2449661955.
volume 3 of the Indigo series by Louise Cooper - Infanta - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2456839594.
volume 4 Nocturne which was a lot better than the others to date - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2456857195.
and a break from the Indigo series, Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2449554413.
Finished Karen Maitland's The Owl Killers and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2353302273.
Read book 5 of Louise Cooper's Indigo series, Troika and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2460147532.
Finished Fireflood and Other Stories, a collection of short stories by Vonda McIntyre and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2461827056.
Finished Blue World by Robert R McCammon and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2464274800.Also read Christa Wolf's Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2427107009.
Just read the first two books in Lyndon Hardy's series: Master of the Five Magics - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1420513467 and Secret of the Sixth Magic (Magics, #2) - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2473275963.
Just read book 3 of the magic trilogy by Lyndon Hardy, Riddle of the Seven Realms and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2473327558.
Read a fantasy series by R A MacAvoy which I really enjoyed:Lens of the World - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2478479405.
King of the Dead - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649453745
Winter of the Wolf - known in the USA as Belly of the Wolf - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649453745.
Then started reading some Mercedes Lackey - By the Sword - reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1423356426.
and an earlier book set in the same country/set up with two of the characters in their much younger days - The Oathbound - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489520199
Read the second in the Vows and Honor series by Mercedes Lackey Oathbreakers - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489520299.
Read Werehunter a collection of short stories by Mercedes Lackey and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2498547334.
Read Robert O'Brien's The Silver Crown and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2507174991.
A re-read of the tense post apocalypse novel by Robert O'Brien, Z For Zachariah - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1391795001.
Read book 1 of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy, Shaman's Crossing and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405973336,
Forgot to mention this collection, read between Z for Zachariah and Shaman's Crossing, by Charles Beaumont - Best of Beaumont - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2514502770.
Read volume 2 of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy, Forest Mage, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405972881.
Read Dianne Wynne Jones' The Game and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2521969348.
Read the third in Robin Hobb's Soldier's Son trilogy, Renegade's Magic, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405972939.
Read a cosy crime by Simon Brett, but wasn't keen - Bones Under the Beach Hut - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2525692907.
Read Foundation book 1 of Mercedes Lackey's Collegium series and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2527138898
Finished The Enchanted by Roberta Murphy and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1773841929.
Finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2534211918.
Here is a belated review of Secret of NIMH as my edition has it - a film tie-in - usually known as Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367357351 read around 24 August but which I forgot to review.
Just finished Joyce Carol Oates' Expensive People and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2536952581.
Just finished Tanya Huff's Blood Price and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2539524209.
Read book 2 in Tanya Huff's vampire series, Blood Trail and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2539762383.
Catching up on reviews - read Tanya Huff's Blood Lines and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2553418277.
Now reviewed the fourth volume of the Tanya Huff series - Blood Pact - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2568234166.
Read and reviewed volume five of Tanya Huff's Vicki Nelson series - Blood Debt - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2568266909.
Read a Witch World novel by Andre Norton, Year of the Unicorn and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1716690839.Should have mentioned that this is book 105 of my 100 book challenge - finished the challenge a while back. Pleased after falling short last year (of 150).
Forgot to post this review done a couple of weeks back for Ramsey Campbell's Nameless, The - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577164207.
Read Obsession by Ramsey Campbell and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577177885.
Read The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2585625271.
Read book 2 of the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher, Fool Moon, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2585728458.
Read Alan Nourse's short story collection, The Counterfeit Man and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1391800084.
Finished Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2590832124. Sadly, didn't love it as much as I usually enjoy her books.
Read Diana Wynne Jones' Conrad's Fate and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1914572834.
Read Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2595339121.
Finished Cards of Grief by Jane Yolan - my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2603217174.
Finished book 1 of Jane Yolen's series, Sister Light, Sister Dark but didn't love it sadly - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2606476310.
Finished Jane Yolen's White Jenna but was as unimpressed as with volume one - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2617947137.
Read a historical crime novel set in the English Civil War - The Royalist by S J Deas - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2628656488.
Read book 2 of the S J Deas Civil War series, The Protector, but didn't find it quite came up to the first - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2636045764.
Read book 1 of a series which seems to straddle fantasy and SF genres - The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2639478127.
Catch up - read Keith Badman's Marilyn Monroe: The Final Years - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2639561849 andThe One-Armed Queen by Jane Yolen - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2628671752.
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Hope you enjoy it as much Greg.